Some great unsatisfactory farm laws with beautiful loopholes, a classy shower of tear gas, water cannon facilities provided not for irrigation except for protests, prominent lathi-charge, a blessing of ignorance of their rights from central government, some nicely unheard pleas, and in fact procrastination….. leaving them in an unseen predicament”
The latest label added to the growing list of aspersions on the protesting farmers is that of the “tukde tukde gang”, this point by Union law minister Shankar Prasad.
Launching the BJP’s Kisan Chaupal Sammelan in Patna, Prasad said strong action would be taken against the “tukde tukde gang” for trying to require advantage of the farmers’ agitation against the three new farm laws.
Over the past few days, Prasad’s cabinet colleague Piyush Goyal has alleged that Left-wing extremists have hijacked the movement. Government supporters have also raised the Khalistani bogey, routinely assailing the farmers by citing the participation of some pro-Khalistani people in demonstrations held abroad in support of Indian farmers’ right to protest.
The farmers’ leaders have remained outwardly unfazed by the smear campaign, asserting they're only giving voice to the groundswell of opinion within the farming community.
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Likewise, they need been staring the govt down over its attempts to divide and rule, describing the varied shows of support for the new farm laws, held under the government’s aegis, as a conspiracy to project differences within the movement.
Gurnam Singh Chaduni of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Haryana) was dismissive when asked about the BKU (Bhanu) ending its blockade of the Noida-Delhi link road via Chilla on Saturday evening.
“Bhanu Pratap has never been a member of our committee and he never joined the Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (the banner under which all the farmers’ collectives are agitating). He never had an enormous role within the movement. it had been a conspiracy to weaken our movement,” Gurnam said.
The BKU (Bhanu) had petitioned the Supreme Court last week against the new farm laws. After lifting its blockade on Saturday, its Uttar Pradesh unit began an indefinite fast , demanding repeal of the three laws, at the Chilla approach Sunday but didn't block the road.
Rakesh Tikait, who heads his own BKU faction in western Uttar Pradesh , said it had been clear from the developments that Bhanu Pratap had sat at the border as a part of the government’s agenda.
“Can a border be closed with 50 people? He was asked to take a seat there and when our movement was at its peak, he was told to finish the siege. This was their agenda,” he said.
Jasbir Singh Virk, leader of the farmers from Uttarakhand, was equally dismissive a few meeting some farmers from Capitol Hill state had had with Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar.
“Two busloads of individuals were brought, of whom a minimum of 90 had nothing to try to to with farming,” he said.
Shiv Kumar Sharma “Kakaji” of the Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangh said: “No one has left the SKM (Sanyukta Kisan Morcha); we take decisions not by majority but unanimously.”
He said the govt was trying to prevent the farmers from proceeding towards Delhi but insisted that there was no doubt of abandoning the struggle within the face of the obstacles being raised.
Farmers blocked certain stretches of the Delhi-Jaipur highway on Sunday. Some farmers from Rajasthan are moving with their cattle ahead of them, apparently as a security net against military action .
In Haryana, the police are back to placing boulders on the highways to prevent farmers from approaching Delhi, but this seems to not be deterring the protesters.
On the farmers’ plans to shut more borders in Delhi, Tikait said this was a piece ongoing and added that the farmers weren't stopping the movement of milk and vegetables.
“Those who produce milk and vegetables too are farmers. If we stop them, the businesses will benefit. Nor can we want to inconvenience the buyer or make the buyer pay more. Our aim isn't to bother people,” he said.
“We don't have anything against the people, who are helping us. So we are just sitting at the borders peacefully. Other access routes are open; we aren't sealing the borders.”
On Monday, all the farmer union leaders will observe a day’s fast
while farmers will gherao district collectors’ offices and submit
memorandums expressing their demands and addressed to the Prime
Minister.
The idea is to possess representations from every district of the country reach the PMO.
We will fight for the sad weather
We will fight for fellow desires
We will choose friends, pieces of life
The hammer still moves, on the sad anvil
The solution still runs on the screaming earth
This work is not ours, the question dances
On the shoulders of the question,
We will fight
Swearing the swords
Swearing off eyes
Swearing calluses on hands
We will fight fellow .....
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